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...fictional characters fared spectacularly well amid the uncertainty that followed 9/11. One was Harry Potter, whose adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scotland provided an exhilarating escape for millions of children, and not a few parents. The other was Precious Ramotswe, whose everyday adventures as boss of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana provided a reassuring escape for millions of adults, and not a few children. Sales of both novel series soared into the tens of millions, making Edinburgh, where J.K. Rowling and Alexander McCall Smith both write, a cradle of superstar authors...
...Robert Mellors Primary School on the outskirts of Nottingham, England, is a long way from the verdant lawns and haunted forests of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the main setting of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books. But by borrowing elements from that fantastic realm, this once-failing school has turned itself around as if by magic dust...
...religion is something I make up myself out of many things,” says participant Jonas Roy, a 23-year-old Boston resident. Others were more dedicated to the cause: Natalia N. Chernenko, an MIT senior and president of the PSG, has been studying various forms of witchcraft for six years. Samhain is a time when pagans celebrate the cycle of death and rebirth, explains Phoenix, the priestess of the ceremony, who declined to give her real name. Participants are cleansed at the beginning of the ceremony with a bell and fruit-infused water. They stand in an unbreakable...
HARRY POTTER J.K. Rowling's blockbuster series about a boy wizard has been repeatedly challenged by claims that it promotes witchcraft...
...fact, the new regulatory changes are an indication of growth in the witchcraft industry. In 1998, the last time the town addressed the issue, it had legislated a quota allowing only one professional fortune-teller per 10,000 Salem residents. That amounted to roughly three psychics, although another nine or so were grandfathered in. The city council also licensed some psychic stores, which were allowed to subcontract to five fortune-telling workers apiece...